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Post by gyro on May 13, 2009 19:09:01 GMT
Saw it this afternoon; what an excellent film .
I don't know how many of you it will make sense to, but it's about Brian Clough, "The Greatest Manager England Never Had", and centres around a dramatised version of his tempestuous 44 days in charge of Leeds United in 1974.
Michael Sheen, who played Clough, was brilliant, and the look and feel of the film was spot on for football in the 70's. Not sure why Timothy Spall was cast as Peter Taylor, and I would love to know if an interview that took place at the end actually happened, or indeed how much of it was based on fact.
ps. Putting this here because I'm more interested in the sports side of it, but if I put it in the Fillum section, it'll probably get moved to Sports, and if I put it in Sports, it'll probably get moved to Fillums ....
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 2:52:34 GMT
Where did this come from.? Sports? That's it. End of thread.
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Post by Jazz on May 14, 2009 3:08:50 GMT
Isn't this the film about the airplane crash of Leeds United in 1974 and the fascinating story of the 44 days of the survivors in a searing, pitiless North African desert? I think Brian Clough was the heroic pilot?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 4:55:30 GMT
Personally I'm waiting for the new Ken Loach movie "Looking for Eric" with Cantona.
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Post by gyro on May 14, 2009 8:47:58 GMT
Okay, so maybe I shouldn't have bothered in the first place .....
Point taken.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 8:51:53 GMT
Why on earth not? I am very interested in any film and will look for that one. But the Ken Loach film is coming out first here.
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Post by gyro on May 14, 2009 9:13:08 GMT
I couldn't be any LESS interested in anything with Cantona in, Ken Loach or not ...
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 13:31:50 GMT
I don't know Cantona,pray tell.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2009 13:37:30 GMT
Is "The Damned United" based on a book about the Leeds crash? This sounds a little familiar.
I'm a sucker for books and movies about survival. It would be interesting to know how many of the real people involved advised on this movie.
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Post by Jazz on May 14, 2009 15:45:49 GMT
Is "The Damned United" based on a book about the Leeds crash? This sounds a little familiar. I'm a sucker for books and movies about survival. It would be interesting to know how many of the real people involved advised on this movie. errr...I was kidding!!! To my knowledge there has never been a plane crash of leeds united with 44 survivors in the searing, pitiless north african desert!!!! My humour, irony, whatever... never comes across online. Gyro and Kerouac: Yes, I did understand that Leeds United is a football team and not an airline. *sigh*
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 15:59:09 GMT
I got it Jazz,made my morning!
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Post by Jazz on May 14, 2009 16:12:02 GMT
Casimira, maybe I should stay with the more umm... straightforward...with the boys?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 17:34:42 GMT
I don't know Cantona,pray tell. Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966) is a French former footballer of the late 1980s and 1990s. He ended his professional footballing career at Manchester United where he won four Premier League titles in five years, including two League and FA Cup "Doubles".
Cantona is often regarded as having played a major talismanic role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing powerhouse and he enjoys iconic status at the club and in English football. In 2001, he was voted their player of the century, and to this day United fans refer to him as "King Eric". He is the current manager of the France beach soccer team.
Following his retirement from football, he took up a career in cinema and had a cameo role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett.
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Post by gyro on May 14, 2009 19:06:37 GMT
Yes, a really BADLY ACTED cameo in Elizabeth. He was a talented footballer, if a little over zealous with his karate kick to a fan, and a pretentious idiot when speaking to the press.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 19:35:12 GMT
Yes, he was awful in that movie. But he has been quite good in a few French films. I was particularly impressed by L'Outremangeur, based on a graphic novel, in which he played a morbidly obese police inspector (with plenty of padding a makeup) who falls in love with a woman who murdered her uncle. He tells her that he will not have her arrested as long as she has dinner with him every night. She is totally repulsed by him, but she accepts. The murderess was played by Rachida Brakni, the best Algerian actress to emerge from the Comédie Française since Isabelle Adjani. The movie was really good, but it was an absolute and total box office flop. Rachida Brakni is now Madame Cantona.
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Post by gyro on May 14, 2009 19:40:46 GMT
I still can't look at him without wanting to punch him in the face though. Same with Michael Douglas, and ironically, Catherine Zeta Jones. And quite a few others, you will doubtless be unsurprised to learn ....
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 19:55:07 GMT
I am truly shocked that such a sweet person as yourself could have such thoughts.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2009 20:42:14 GMT
eerrr...I was kidding!!! To my knowledge there has never been a plane crash of leeds united with 44 survivors in the searing, pitiless north african desert!!!! My humour, irony, whatever... never comes across online. You have no idea how often this has happened to me. At least you resisted any impulse to turn this against me for some cruel amusement. The awful thing is, it still sounds familiar. Maybe I'm thinking of the --soccer team?-- that ate each other in the Andes. And the desert thing is pretty funny, particularly if one is not impressionable & literal-minded.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 14, 2009 20:44:17 GMT
Oh yeah -- I cannot STAND Michael Douglas. Really, I can't even look at him. I don't feel as strongly about Catherine Z-J, but fail to understand her appeal. A strange thing about her is that, you look at her & think, "pretty", but the second she's not in your view, you forget completely what she looks like.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2009 22:13:42 GMT
Ditto Michael Douglas. The only role I liked him in was "Falling Down"(uncharacteristic for him).
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Post by gyro on May 15, 2009 4:23:48 GMT
I think he's done a decent job in a few movies, but mainly because he was playing a smug arrogant unlikeable prick. That's why Tom Cruise's best role to date was in Rain Man.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 1, 2009 6:33:30 GMT
Bixa might be thinking of the south American rugby team that crashed in the Andes and cannibalised the crash victims until they were found.
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